Word: despairingly
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...misery, however, is implied in the colorism of COBRA. Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...
Only one man in Castello refuses to take sides. Seventy-year-old Father Yánaros is the last of a distinguished line of Kazantzakis heroes-sweaty, seedy, tortured saints, torn between faith and doubt, hope and despair, a yearning for solitude and a compulsion to aid their fellow men. Yánaros travels through life as if on a tightrope, or as he puts it, dancing barefoot on hot coals: "Every saint is a firewalker. And so is every honest man in this hell we call life...
...this line of reasoning to a successful conclusion, Dr. Kline, 48, won the Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award of $10,000. His citation declared: "Literally hundreds of thousands of people are leading productive, normal lives who-but for Dr. Kline's work-would be leading lives of fruitless despair and frustration." Patients who had been in mental hospitals so long that all hope for them had been abandoned have shown marked improvement on the "psychic energizers" developed by Dr. Kline or resulting from his work. * How many lives the drugs save among suicidal patients can never be known...
Despite its ineptitude, deep within the murky horror of Les Abysses there are glimmerings of intelligent despair. Two half-demented lesbian sisters (played by real-life sisters Francine and Colette Berge), employed as housemaids on a poverty-ridden farm in the Bordeaux region, are afraid that jobs and home will be sold away by their indifferent masters. Unable to sabotage the deal, they ultimately go berserk and commit two savage murders...
Returning from paradise, Adams shuttled between the U.S. and Europe, enjoying a rather luxurious despair on a handsome annual income from investments. He had given the back of his hand to what he called the "total, irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system." Nevertheless, he could not stay away from the "rottenness." Impressed by the Cuban revolt in 1895, he became Washington's fiercest lobbyist for Cuban independence, pressured his close friend Henry Cabot Lodge and other senators to intervene...